Cancer is the #1 killer of Americans aged 45 to 84. Smoking accounts for 30 percent of those deaths. Excess weight, inactivity, poor diet, and alcohol account for another 16 percent. Here’s how to cut your risk.
One in eight adults have diabetes (mostly type 2). Another one in three have prediabetes. Nine out of ten don’t know it. The good news: a healthy diet and exercise can cut diabetes risk in half.
Keeping your bones strong and your joints supple can help prevent falls and fractures, pain, stiffness, and disability.
Here’s how to prevent—or manage—osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, osteopenia, and gout.
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